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90_HB2147enr New Act Creates the Youth Crime Prevention Consortium Act. Authorizes universities, colleges, and community colleges located in the same county to form a consortium that operates to supply an educational component to youth crime prevention programs organized by local communities within that county. Provides that the consortium shall develop and implement a curriculum offering one or more courses for academic credit at an institution of higher learning that is part of the consortium. Provides that the course or courses are to be offered in disciplines normally associated with young people, their families, or the criminal justice system and that as part of each such course students are to be required to provide adult mentoring and leadership to community youth during informal, safe opportunities organized by and in local communities as part of their youth crime prevention programs. LRB9004944THcw HB2147 Enrolled LRB9004944THcw 1 AN ACT relating to youth crime prevention education. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the 5 Youth Crime Prevention Consortium Act. 6 Section 5. Educational consortium; formation. 7 Notwithstanding any other law of this State, a university, 8 college, or community college that is an "institution of 9 higher learning" (as that term is defined in Section 10 of 10 the Higher Education Student Assistance Act) and that has a 11 campus located in the same county as a campus of one or more 12 other such institutions of higher learning may join with any 13 of such other institutions of higher learning to form a 14 consortium that operates to supply an educational component 15 to a youth crime prevention program or programs organized by 16 local communities in the county in which the institutions of 17 higher learning that form the consortium are located. 18 Section 10. Authorized curriculum. An educational 19 consortium established under this Act shall develop and 20 implement a curriculum that offers one or more courses that a 21 student at an institution of higher learning participating in 22 the consortium may enroll in for academic credit from that 23 institution. The course or courses shall be offered in 24 disciplines normally associated with young people, their 25 families, or the criminal justice system, and as part of each 26 such course the student shall be required to provide adult 27 mentoring and leadership to community youth during informal, 28 safe opportunities organized by and in the local communities 29 as part of their youth crime prevention programs.